Embroidered Jorvik Hood

I finished and kept an embroidery piece for myself! Wool Jorvik-style hood with embroidery inspired by the Mammen finds (see here for more info on the Mammen embroideries). Wool hood lined with linen, wool split stitch embroidery, wool tablet woven ties (which someone else made for me, can’t take credit for those). Started January 2014, finished March 2015. Guesstimating 50 or so hours of work, but I am horrible at keeping track!

Hood/cap fragments have been found from the Viking age settlements at Dublin and York (Jorvik). Now, based on someone else’s version (and more detailed research), my simple sewn-from-a-rectangle design is, uh, wrong. In fact, a lot of things about mine are probably wrong: